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Amphikalein
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Also weird is the connection between the Book of Mormon and Amity, PA. Check out some of the the story of the Spalding Manuscript.
| Quote: | While living in Conneaut, Ohio, in the early nineteenth century, Solomon Spalding (1761–1816) began writing a work of fiction about the lost civilization of the mound builders of North America. Spalding shared his story, entitled Manuscript Story[2] with members of his family and some of his associates in Conneaut, as well as his friends in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Amity, Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he lived prior to his death. However, Manuscript Story was not published during his lifetime.
In 1832, Latter Day Saint missionaries Samuel H. Smith and Orson Hyde visited Conneaut, Ohio, and preached from the Book of Mormon. Nehemiah King, a resident of Conneaut who knew Spalding when he lived there, felt that the Mormon text resembled the story written by Spalding years before. In 1833, at the urging of Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, King, Spalding's widow, his brother John, and a number of other residents of Conneaut signed affidavits stating that Spalding had written a manuscript, portions of which were identical to the Book of Mormon. |
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And you trying to tell me that the whole Mormom religion is based on plagiarism and made-up stuff? Say it ain't so.
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Really, though, the younger religions, like Mormonism and Scientology, are really no more or less believable to me than the ancient ones. Mormonism and Scientology just have the disadvantage of being fact-checkable.
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The mormon South Park is one of my favorites. Dumb-da-dumb-dumb-dumb.
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That is one of the funniest in the entire series. The one about Easter with the rabbit as the pope is also great.
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C'mon guys....I have friends who are Mormon...
(But I wouldn't want both my daughters marrying one)
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You sound like Phony. 
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